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Director: Francis Ford Coppola Edit Storyline McMurphy has a criminal past and has once again gotten himself into trouble and is sentenced by the court. To escape labor duties in prison, McMurphy pleads insanity and is sent to a ward for the mentally unstable. Once here, McMurphy both endures and stands witness to the abuse and degradation of the oppressive Nurse Ratched, who gains superiority and power through the flaws of the other inmates. McMurphy and the other inmates band together to make a rebellious stance against the atrocious Nurse. Written by Jacob Oberfrank If he's crazy, what does that make you? Genres: 19 November 1975 (USA) See more » Also Known As: Atrapado sin salida See more » Filming Locations: Did You Know? Trivia In 1993, the movie was deemed "culturally, historically or aesthetically significant" by the United States Library of Congress and selected for preservation in the National Film Registry.

See more » Goofs After McMurphy hijacks the bus and is driving through town, there are some 1970s automobiles, including a Plymouth Duster and Chevy Nova, and a store with lots of color TVs in the window. The movie is set in 1963, according to the World Series broadcast. See more » Quotes See more » Crazy Credits The cast is credited in alphabetical order in the end credits, except for Brad Dourif , who is listed last as follows: "and introducing / Brad Dourif as Billy Bibbit". See more » Connections (Philadelphia, PA) – See all my reviews The opening shot of ONE FLEW OVER THE CUCKOO'S NEST is a bleak glance at an Oregon morning. Stirring, haunting music plays gracefully on the soundtrack and a car approaches. Inside the car is one of film history's most remarkable characters. "Randle McMurphy" is about to bring hope, humor, and a glimmer of reality to some disturbed people in a mental hospital. Jack Nicholson as "McMurphy", is something of a paradox. Is this guy crazy or is he really the lazy, conniving criminal most believe him to be?

That is the magical mystery and start to a journey into mental illness and the effect this man will have on some truly messed up men. Milos Forman directs this all-time classic, which swept the Oscars deservedly, and holds up so well 25 years later. It is a simplistic film about small people living in their own small worlds. Manic moments are mixed with poignant acting all leading to an astounding climax. Not before or since CUCKOO'S NEST has a collection of different characters had such an impact on me. You could write a book report about each of the patients in the ward. The two most important people here are, of course, Jack Nicholson and Louise Fletcher. Nicholson has his greatest moments in this picture. One brilliant scene has him doing an imaginary play-by-play commentary of the 1963 World Series to the group, who are not allowed to watch the game on TV. It is a poetic sequence and Nicholson goes crazy with his delivery, describing baseball with colorful anecdotes and profanity. "McMurphy" immediately makes an impression on the crazies and shows them how they don't have to stick to the "normal routine".

He knows their names right away, he sprays them with water, he makes impossible bets with them, he introduces them to fishing, and he even gets a suffering young kid (played well by Brad Dourif) a "date". Louise Fletcher plays one of the more reprehensible human beings in film as "Nurse Mildred Ratched". She is a hardened woman, one who makes the daily meetings with the group a contest to see who will win. Her stubbornness and lack of compassion for the poor guys is rather one dimensional. That's perfect because that is exactly who she is. Her strong will to keep things monotonous leads to a final showdown with the free spirited "McMurphy" in what is easily one of the most shocking and disturbing climaxes in recent memory. ONE FLEW OVER THE CUCKOO'S NEST does not try to make a statement about mental illness or how the unstable should be treated. Rather, it is a very simple portrait of the long days and hilarious scenarios that can come about when a mixed bag of suffering people are thrown together. Mental illness is nothing to laugh about, but the fact that Nicholson is not really crazy (at least in my opinion) allows us to be amused.

He seems to love his compadres in the hospital. He is mislead, however, into thinking he can do as he pleases. There is no denying the power of CUCKOO'S NEST. The two main powerhouse performances are golden, the cinematography is morbid and gritty like it should be, the "Chief" is great as Nicholson's right hand, ah, protagonist, and you care a lot about what will happen as the film moves on. The famous, final shot ironically happens to be an exit of a major character into that bleak, Oregon morning. NOTE: I have never read the book and I find it hard to believe author Ken Kesey has never watched the filmed version. Comparing a book to a movie is impossible. They are 2 distinctly different artistic methods of story-telling. 288 of 348 people found this review helpful. Was this review helpful to you? Yes One Flew over the Cuckoo's Nest - You're not Crazy ! - YouTube One Flew over the Cuckoo's Nest - You're not Crazy ! Want to watch this again later? Sign in to add this video to a playlist. Need to report the video? Sign in to report inappropriate content.

The interactive transcript could not be loaded. Loading... Rating is available when the video has been rented. This feature is not available right now. Please try again later. Published on Jan 7, 2013 One Flew over the Cuckoo's Nest is a 1975 Film starring Jack Nicholson, written by Lawrence Hauben and Bo Goldman and directed by Miloš Forman. It is based on the novel: "One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest" by Ken Kesey. Category When autoplay is enabled, a suggested video will automatically play next. Up next Medicine time - Duration: 2:32. shekay07 150,219 views 2:32 One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest - The First Confrontation - Duration: 4:29. tsnyder417 271,893 views 4:29 getting Chief into the basketball game - Duration: 3:18. GokaGrozni 219,812 views 3:18 One Flew Over The Cuckoo's Nest - Monopoly Scene - Duration: 1:24.

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Not that it really matters, McMurphy is the kind of impulsive yet strong-willed character who will always clash with institutional authority. What can go wrong in a mental ward? Everything if you’re Randle McMurphy, even if you’re not purposely trying to make things go wrong. The source of the conflict is Nurse Ratched. Whether the name is supposed to remind us of wretched or her mechanical nature is up for debate, but Louise Fletcher plays the role both ways. Nurse Ratched may be a cold, mechanical automaton intent on sucking the joy and individuality from all the people that surround her but still the viewer pities Nurse Ratched, we can tell that things don’t get any better for her when she clocks out of work. A fiercely individualistic Randall with a wonky yet unyielding moral compass forced into the same confines as the deplorable Nurse Ratched? The table is set for an epic battle of wills. For most movies that would be enough. Randall v. Ratched: The Stare Down in Crazy Town. But Cuckoo’s Nest isn’t most movies; it isn’t the easy way out.

One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest avoids the expected by introducing a myriad of subplots centered on the other patients. There are seemingly too many subplots going to keep up with. How can we be expected to care about a silent giant Indian, a stuttering sex starved teen (among others), plus Randall and Nurse Ratched all at the same time? With a great script and great direction (by Milos Forman) it turns out you can care about more than two characters. You’ll find yourself as emotionally invested in Chief as you are in Randall, and you’ll empathize with Billy Bibbit in an amount equal to your loathing of Nurse Ratched. With Cuckoo’s Nest there is a constant temptation to turn the movie into a philosophical statement. Is the movie really about the individual versus the system? A screed about the denial of personal humanity? A treatise on the finer points of the golden rule? A condemnation of a bygone era of Freudian psychology? Viable interpretations all, perhaps, but questions that miss the heart of Cuckoo’s Nest. At the most fundamental level the movie is just a great story that is told very well.

There are no obvious (or even minuscule) flaws in Cuckoo’s Nest, the film is full of great moments (prepare to watch Randall work the floor for votes to watch a World Series game several times) but be prepared for a break from the standard Hollywood offerings. One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest manages to be very depressing and uplifting at the same time. If you have a soul, you’ll both laugh and feel your throat tighten. If you read a synopsis of the movie you’ll think it is nothing special, just Jack chewing the scenery, but if you take the time to watch the movie you’ll realize you’re looking at a cinema classic. One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest (1975) Pages: ( 1 ) ( 2 ) Background One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest (1975) is one of the greatest American films of all time - a $4.4 million dollar effort directed by Czech Milos Forman.

Its allegorical theme is set in the world of an authentic mental hospital (Oregon State Hospital in Salem, Oregon), a place of rebellion exhibited by a energetic, flamboyant, wise-guy anti-hero against the Establishment, institutional authority and status-quo attitudes (personified by the patients' supervisory nurse). [Forman himself noted that the asylum was a metaphor for the Soviet Union (embodied as Nurse Ratched) and the desire to escape.] Expressing his basic human rights and impulses, the protagonist protests against heavy-handed rules about watching the World Series, and illegally stages both a fishing trip and a drinking party in the ward - leading to his own paralyzing lobotomy. Jack Nicholson's acting persona as the heroic rebel McMurphy, who lives free or dies (through an act of mercy killing), had earlier been set with his performances in Easy Rider (1969) and Five Easy Pieces (1970) . The mid-70s baby-boomers' counter-culture was ripe for a film dramatizing rebellion and insubordination against oppressive bureaucracy and an insistence upon rights, self-expression, and freedom.

The role of the sexually-repressed, domineering Nurse Ratched was turned down by five actresses - Anne Bancroft, Colleen Dewhurst, Geraldine Page, Ellen Burstyn, and Angela Lansbury - until Louise Fletcher accepted casting (in her debut film) only a week before filming began. And actor James Caan was also originally offered the lead role of McMurphy, and Marlon Brando and Gene Hackman were considered as well. The entire film was shot in sequence, except for the fishing scene (shot last). It surprised everyone by becoming enormously profitable - the seventh-highest-grossing film ever (at its time), bringing in almost $300 million worldwide. The independently-produced film also swept the Oscars: it was the first film to take all the major awards (Best Picture, Best Director, Best Screenplay, Best Actor, and Best Actress) since Frank Capra's It Happened One Night (1934) .

It was nominated for nine Academy Awards in total: Best Actor (Jack Nicholson with his first win after losing the previous year for Chinatown (1974) ), Best Actress (Louise Fletcher), Best Adapted Screenplay, Best Cinematography (Bill Butler and Haskell Wexler), Best Director, Best Editing, Best Picture, Best Score (Jack Nitzsche) and Best Supporting Actor (Brad Dourif). "Cuckoo's Nest" beat out tough competition for Best Picture by Spielberg's Jaws (1975) and Altman's Nashville (1975) . The film's unauthorized screenplay (by Lawrence Hauben and Bo Goldman) was restructured and adapted from author Ken Kesey's 1962 popular, best-selling novel of the same name so that it would appeal to contemporary audiences. [Kesey wrote the first version of the film's screenplay.] The film's title was derived from a familiar, tongue-twisting Mother's Goose children's folk song (or nursery rhyme) called Vintery, Mintery, Cutery, Corn. The ones that fly east and west are diametrically opposed to each other and represent the two combatants in the film.

The one that flies over the cuckoo's nest [the mental hospital filled with "cuckoo" patients] is the giant, 'deaf-mute' Chief: Vintery, mintery, cutery, corn, And one flew west, And one flew over the cuckoo's nest. The novel was originally dramatized on Broadway (an adapted play by Dale Wasserman) beginning in 1963 with actor Kirk Douglas starring in the lead role as McMurphy and Gene Wilder as stuttering Billy Bibbit. Kirk Douglas bought the rights to the novel, but couldn't convince film studios to produce the film. Many years after its short theatrical run, Douglas transferred the rights to his son, actor/producer Michael Douglas, who co-produced the United Artists film with Saul Zaentz. Michael Douglas had considered playing the starring role, but by the time of the film's production, he judged himself too old. Kesey had derived most of the novel's secondary characters from real-life psychiatric ward patients at a VA hospital (in Menlo Park, CA) where he had once worked in a night job in the late 50s.

(In the novel, McMurphy was a stocky redhead with a poorly-stitched gash across his cheekbone and nose. And 6' 8" tall, 'mute' native American Chief Bromden, a paranoid schizophrenic, narrated the story and was the central character in the novel, providing hallucinatory images of an all-powerful, all-seeing bureaucratic 'harvesting machine' designed to foster complete social integration - a Combine, that would squelch all individuality and create a compliant society (both within the hospital and in the wider society). Those who were non-conforming would be relegated to a correctional facility for repair or removal. Kesey was so incensed by the change in the perspective of the story-telling (away from Chief Bromden's first-person perspective) and other changes in the script that he sued the producers.) The Story The film's credits play under an Oregonian wilderness scene at dawn, as a car's headlights move across the screen.

A black-coated supervisory nurse, Nurse Ratched (Louise Fletcher) (known as Big Nurse in the novel) arrives at the locked, security ward of a state mental hospital [on location in Salem, Oregon at the Oregon State Hospital/Asylum], where patient inmates, nurses, and orderlies attend to early morning medications. Pills are dispensed from the Nurses' Station, a large booth with sliding glass panels. An energetic, swaggering, wisecracking, non-conformist, rebellious patient/prisoner Randle Patrick (R.

P.) "Mac" McMurphy (Jack Nicholson), 38 years old, is escorted into the ward where he meets some of the bizarre, memorable patients/inmates (most of whom are voluntarily committed): a silent, dignified, huge and towering Indian giant "Chief" Bromden, aka "Broom" (Creek Indian Will Sampson in his film debut) - a "deaf and dumb Indian" "as big as a god-damn tree trunk" - with a father blinded after many years of alcoholism a pathetic, incessantly stuttering, paranoid boychild, thirty-year old Billy Bibbit (Brad Dourif in his film debut) - shy, virginal, impressionable, and deathly afraid of his mother an ineffectual, rationalizing intellectual Dale Harding (William Redfield) - relatively sane but unable to get over his wife's betrayal and adultery when she "seeks attention elsewhere" an insecure neurotic Charlie Cheswick (Sydney Lassick) lacking self-confidence a short, smiling Martini (Danny De Vito in one of his earliest roles) with an immature personality a cynical, trouble-making sadist Taber (Christopher Lloyd in his film debut) Dr.

Spivey (real hospital superintendent Dr. Dean Brooks), the head doctor at the institution, explains to McMurphy why he has been admitted from a prison work farm - reciting various labels applied to him: Dr. Spivey: It said you've been belligerent, talked when unauthorized, been resentful in attitude toward work in general, that you're lazy... McMurphy: Chewin' gum in class, ha, ha...? Dr. Spivey: Well, the real reason that you've been sent over here is because they wanted you to be evaluated...to determine whether or not you are mentally ill. This is the real reason. With his logical mind and a bent against bureaucratic illogic, McMurphy offers his own assessment: "Well, as near as I can figure out, it's 'cause I, uh, fight and f--k too much." The doctor reminds McMurphy of his five arrests for assault, to which McMurphy replies: "Five fights, huh?

Rocky Marciano's got forty and he's a millionaire." The crime of statutory rape put him into jail: But Doc, she was fifteen years old, going on thirty-five, Doc, and, uh, she told me she was eighteen and she was, uh, very willing, you know what I mean...I practically had to take to sewin' my pants shut. But, uh between you and me, uh, she might have been fifteen, but when you get that little red beaver right up there in front of ya, I don't think it's crazy at all now and I don't think you do either...No man alive could resist that, and that's why I got into jail to begin with. And now they're telling me I'm crazy over here because I don't sit there like a goddamn vegetable. Don't make a bit of sense to me. If that's what's bein' crazy is, then I'm senseless, out of it, gone-down-the-road, wacko. But no more, no less, that's it. The prison officials think he's been "fakin' it," pretending to be insane to get himself transferred out of the hard work details of the prison work farm.

McMurphy actually admits that he is sane: "I'm a god-damn marvel of modern science." But he agrees to cooperate during a period of evaluation, study, and treatment of his condition: I'm here to cooperate with ya a hundred percent. A hundred percent. I'll be just right down the line with ya, you watch. 'Cause I think we ought to get to the bottom of R. P. McMurphy. McMurphy is assigned to a ward supervised by a consistent, bureaucratic authoritarian named Nurse Mildred Ratched and soon senses he must battle her, antagonized by her emasculating, slightly sadistic, and domineering attitude in a chaotic group therapy session. The scene ends with her powerful, yet placid and internalized, self-satisfied smile. With controlled but manic lunacy, the new misfit patient brings life to the dead atmosphere of the mental institution in a number of scenes, winning a number of rounds over his arch-enemy. While the non-restricted patients board a field trip bus during a restorative outdoor exercise period, he teaches those left behind, including the Chief, an "old Indian game" - basketball, in a fenced-in court.

"It's called, uh, put the ball in the hole." On the shoulders of Bancini (Josip Elic), a Frankenstein-like inmate, he demonstrates how to dunk the ball in the hoop. With a cool, emotionally controlled look, Nurse Ratched views his antics from the ward's window. With card-shark skill, he introduces card games (with pornographically illustrated cards) and black jack gambling (betting cigarettes) to the dull monotonous routine of the inmates. First with subtle mind games, he rebels against correct behavior and the rules of the hospital laid down by the self-righteous and cooly-controlled Nurse, unwilling to yield to her power over his life-affirming spirit and cunning manhood. McMurphy violates one of the cardinal rules by entering the Nurse's Station to turn down the loud volume on the piped-in music. When told he is forbidden, he again makes his request outside the station, but she refuses: "That music is for everyone, Mr.

McMurphy." He calmly asks the assistant Nurse Pilbow (Mimi Sarkisian) about the ingredients of his "horse-pill" medications during one of the compulsory lineups for pill delivery: But I don't like the idea of taking something if I don't know what it is...(joking) I don't want anyone to try and slip me salt-peter. You know what I mean? For his resistance and questioning of the rules, he is accused by those in power of being upset: "Don't get upset, Mr. McMurphy." When the Nurse offers an alternative method to taking pills orally, McMurphy decides to take his pill (but then in a symbolic, antagonistic gesture doesn't swallow it.) The patients are organized and controlled through a rigid set of authoritarian rules and regulations that McMurphy questions: "God Almighty, she's got you guys comin' or goin'.

What do you think she is, some kind of a champ or somethin'?" The contest of wills with the Nurse is played out as a struggle to win the other inmates over to his way of thinking and behaving by establishing a political majority, to lead various group insurrections, and to emphasize how they have been denied their freedom of will: I bet in one week, I can put a bug so far up her ass, she don't know whether to s--t or wind her wristwatch. In the next group therapy meeting, McMurphy begs Nurse Ratched to rearrange the "carefully worked out schedule" of the work detail so that the inmates can watch the opener of the 1963 World Series baseball game (at Yankee Stadium) on television, adding: "a little change never hurt huh? A little variety?" To intimidate his liberating challenge to the leadership of the ward and to cause no disruption to the ward's precise schedule, she refuses: "Some men on the ward take a long, long time to get used to the schedule.

Change it now and they might find it very disturbing." The Nurse proposes a vote to decide the matter - "let majority rule" - already knowing that authority and power are on her side against the slavish, malleable, drugged-out patients. Only three votes support McMurphy's request and he can't believe it, envoking a political comparison: "What is this crap?...What is the matter with you guys? Come on! Be good Americans." When a Monopoly game between the inmates in the tub room leads to a heated argument, McMurphy sprays the inmates with water to cool them down, and then tells Harding, one of those which didn't vote for his request for a rearrangement of the schedule: ...stay all wet Harding, huh, cause I'm goin' downtown and watch the World Series anyway. Anybody want to come with me? Again, con-man McMurphy bets the patients that he can escape incarceration by lifting and smashing his way out of the ward with a heavy, marble-sided watering station. He plans to go downtown with Cheswick and "sit down at a bar, wet our whistles and watch the ballgame. And that's the bet! Now does anybody want any of it?

Huh?" Harding, contemptuously nicknamed "Hard-on" by McMurphy, gambles $25 that McMurphy isn't strong enough. McMurphy moves Billy out of the way before attempting to do the lift: Get out of my way son, you're usin' my oxygen. In a dramatic, riveting, and memorable scene, McMurphy strains and struggles valiantly to pick up the tremendous weight, gritting his teeth - but he cannot lift it. As he strides from the room, he turns toward the patients, refusing to acknowledge defeat, maintaining by his example that it is better to try and fail than to meekly accept an unsatisfactory status quo: But I tried, didn't I? God-damn it. At least I did that. During the next therapy session, Nurse Ratched determinedly presses Billy with questions about emotional disturbances resulting from a domineering mother. Hiding beneath her own cool demeanor are many neurotic, sexually-repressed feelings. By controlling the patients, she zealously serves her own ego needs rather than the therapeutic needs of the patients. Cheswick proposes another vote about watching the second game of the World Series, thinking it would be a better therapeutic alternative.

McMurphy encourages his usually compliant and spiritless fellow patients: I wanna see the hands. Come on. Which one of you nuts has got the guts? Nine votes are counted in the therapy group and McMurphy senses victory in this round over her. But Nurse Ratched refuses to have the other inmates won over to him and becomes the spoiler. She changes the rules to defeat the proposal: Nurse: There are eighteen patients on this ward, Mr. McMurphy. And you have to have a majority to change ward policy. So you gentlemen can put your hands down now. McMurphy: (turning and gesturing toward other men out of hearing range on the ward floor) You're tryin' to tell me that you're gonna count these, these poor son-of-a-bitches, they don't know what we're talkin' about. Nurse: Well, I have to disagree with you, Mr. McMurphy. These men are members of the ward just as you are. Nurse Ratched adjourns the meeting and closes the voting session as McMurphy struggles and fails to get the severely-disturbed patients to join in the vote.

When the Chief slowly raises his hand, McMurphy is elated, but the steely-willed Nurse rejects the vote of 10 to 8 from behind the glass panel of the Nurse's Station, and forbids them to watch television. She claims that the vote when the meeting adjourned was 9 to 9: McMurphy: The Chief voted. Now, will you please turn on the television set? Nurse: (she opens the glass panel) Mr. McMurphy, the meeting was adjourned and the vote was closed. McMurphy: But the vote was 10 to 8. The Chief, he's got his hand up! Look! Nurse: No, Mr. McMurphy. When the meeting was adjourned, the vote was 9 to 9. McMurphy: (exasperated) Aw come on, you're not gonna say that now. You're not gonna say that now. You're gonna pull that hen-house s--t now when the vote...the Chief just voted - it was 10 to 9. Now I want that television set turned on, right now.

(The Nurse slides the glass panel across the front of the Nurse's Station, shutting out his protest.) In the most well-remembered sequence in the film, McMurphy subversively pretends to be enjoying the second World Series baseball game on television in a contest of wills with the Nurse. He inventively re-creates the play-by-play excitement of the game. His excitement proves infectious - the other patients join him and look up at the dark television screen that reflects their faces - they almost believe that the game is real. In another evaluation session with Dr. Spivey after a four-week stay, McMurphy responds to a question about whether he likes it at the hospital. McMurphy explains how he has been antagonized by an emasculating, domineering female Nurse: McMurphy: Well, that f--kin' Nurse, man...She, uh, she ain't honest. Dr. Spivey: Aw now, look. Miss Ratched's one of the finest nurses we've got in this institution. McMurphy: Ha! Well I don't wanna break up the meeting or nothin', but she's somethin' of a c--t, ain't she, Doc? Dr.

Spivey: How do you mean that? McMurphy: She likes a rigged game, you know what I mean? The doctor offers his diagnosis of McMurphy's mental health state: "I don't see any evidence of mental illness at all. And I think that you've been trying to put us on all this time." To prove a point about the fine line between normality and abnormality, McMurphy demonstrates some stereotypical "crazy" behaviors and then asks: "Is that crazy enough for you? You want me to take a s--t on the floor?" One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest: 10 things you didn't know about the film - Telegraph Film One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest: 10 things you didn't know about the film Here's 10 interesting facts about One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest, in which Jack Nicholson put in one of the great screen performances Jack Nicholson as Randle McMurphy in One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest Photo: Rex Features Follow 1.

The author of One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest never saw the film Although Ken Kesey was initially involved in the film adaptation of his 1962 novel, he left the production after just two weeks and took a law suit out against the film's producers. Kesey's grievances were numerous but most notably he wanted Gene Hackman, not Jack Nicholson, to play Randle McMurphy. The author was also incensed that Chief Bromden (played by Will Sampson) was not the narrator in the film, as he is in the novel. One lovely story goes that Kesey mistakenly stumbled across the film on television many years later, and was enjoying what he saw, but hurriedly switched channels when he realised what he was watching. Incensed: Ken Kesey felt his novel had been 'butchered' (AP) 2. One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest is one of only three films to win all five major Academy Awards It won the Oscar for (deep breath): Best Picture, Best Director, Best Actor, Best Actress and Best Adapted Screenplay. The other films to have done the same?

It Happened One Night (1934) and The Silence of the Lambs (1991). 3. Many of the extras were real mental health patients The film was shot on location at Oregon State Mental Hospital and dozens of the patients at the hospital were drafted in as extras. Somewhat predictably, this didn't always run smoothly and on one infamous occasion a patient jumped out of a third-floor window which had been left open by the film crew. The following day, a waggish newspaper ran the headline: "One Flew Out of the Cuckoo's Nest". 4. There was a hip-hop homage to the film called Insane in the Brain Swedish hip-hop dance troupe Bounce performed the tactfully titled Insane in the Brain on a UK tour in 2008 and 2009. Perhaps unexpectedly, it received positive reviews, with one newspaper describing it as "Not a performance to miss. Not, indeed, an entertainment to miss." But if, heaven forbid, you did miss it, here's some footage of the production. 5.

The Swedes love the film more than any other nation Not content with the usual run of, say, a couple of months, the Swedes continued to show One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest in cinemas for an astonishing 11 years, from 1976 to 1987. Director Miloš Forman said exactly what any director should say on hearing the news: "I'm absolutely thrilled by that . . . it's wonderful." 6. The title of the novel is derived from a nursery rhyme I confess to having no idea what it all means and nor, I suspect, did Ken Kesey. What I do know is that Chief Bromden quotes these lines from Oliver Goldsmith's tongue-twisting nursery rhyme in the novel after receiving electroshock therapy. They do not, however, make an appearance in the film. Nevertheless, here they are in their entirety: "Vintery, mintery, cutery, corn, Apple seed and apple thorn; Wire, briar, limber lock, Three geese in a flock. One flew east, And one flew over the cuckoo's nest." Indeed. 7.

Oscar-winning actress Anjelica Huston appears as an extra in the film This is not the role for which Anjelica Huston will be remembered – after all, she won an Oscar for her performance for Prizzi's Honor (1986) – but if you look closely when the boat returns to the pier following the fishing trip, there she is in the crowd. For many years, Huston was rumoured to be in a relationship with Jack Nicholson. Anjelica Huston (left) as an uncredited extra in One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest 8. The music accompanying the opening and closing credits was performed on a musical saw Jack Nitzsche was nominated for both an Oscar and a Grammy for his work on the soundtrack to One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest. 9. Psychiatrists have never forgiven the film for what it did to the reputation of electro-convulsive therapy (ECT) Contrary to popular belief, Jack Nicholson did not undergo ECT during filming but the depiction of the procedure was overly dramatic, according to the Royal College of Psychiatrists.

"Films such as One Flew Over The Cuckoo’s Nest did for ECT what Jaws did for sharks – the depiction of the treatment in that film is completely over the top, with the patient being held down, writhing in pain, as he is electrocuted," a spokesperson for the organisation has said. "This is not what happens. For a start, during ECT the patient is anaesthetised and given a muscle relaxant – which has been the case since the Fifties – to ensure they feel no pain at all. No one is ever forced to have ECT, and when antidepressant medication isn’t working, it can be life-saving." Nicholson over-acting? Surely not! This is not what happens during ECT. Apparently.(United Artists/Fantasy Films) 10. Nurse Ratched was Louise Fletcher's first major film role The actress was selected for the role of the ice-cold nurse ahead of a number of higher profile competitors, including Jane Fonda, Angela Lansbury and Geraldine Page. It was her first major role and she won an Oscar for it but... she was last seen as a guest star in Shameless.

One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest is on BBC Two tonight at 11.05pm SparkNotes: One Flew over the Cuckoo’s Nest: Context One Flew over the Cuckoo’s Nest ← Table of Contents Plot Overview One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest (1975) is perhaps the best-known antiauthority film in history. The film’s director, Milos Forman, was well acquainted with repressive authority, having experienced it firsthand for much of his life. Born outside of Prague, Czechoslovakia, in 1932, Forman lost both his parents to the Nazi death camps of World War II. When he began making films in the mid-1960s, a brief flourish of Czech political and artistic freedom allowed him to explore daily life through satire, and he helped develop what the French call cinéma vérité (truthful cinema), an influential style based on realism and lacking traditional heroes. Forman’s Loves of a Blonde was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film in 1966, and his Fireman’s Ball received the same recognition in 1967.

However, communist authorities labeled Fireman’s Ball as a threat and banned the film. One year later, while Forman was visiting Paris, the Soviet Union invaded Czechoslovakia. Forman never returned to his homeland, but the image of Soviet tanks rolling into his country continued to haunt him and echoes throughout his work on One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest. Based on the popular 1962 novel by Ken Kesey, One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest initially was adapted as a Broadway play. Its star, Kirk Douglas, bought the film rights and tried unsuccessfully for twelve years to generate interest from Hollywood in making the movie. When he felt too old to play the role of the protagonist, McMurphy, Douglas assigned the rights to his son, Michael. After securing private financing, Michael Douglas coproduced the film with Saul Zaentz of Fantasy Records. They went on to earn Oscars as producers—a first for Michael Douglas—when One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest won the Academy Award for Best Picture of 1975. The producers chose Forman as director for his ability to capture the concerns of the times.

His American film debut, Taking Off (1971), was a comedy about the lack of understanding between young people and their parents. The generation gap was a popular theme in the 1960s and 1970s, as the American people, especially young people, began questioning all manners of authority, old-fashioned institutions, and the social status quo. The civil rights movement and the anti–Vietnam War protests of the 1960s morphed into the campus demonstrations, violent antidraft protests, and women’s liberation movement of the 1970s. In a particularly transforming event of the times, National Guardsmen opened fire on student protesters at Kent State University in 1970, following a rock-throwing incident, and killed four students. A few years later, American faith in authority was further shaken by the Watergate break-in and subsequent cover-up, which led to the resignation of President Richard Nixon in 1974. One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest, in its antiauthority stance, resonated strongly with these and other events of the 1970s.

Pauline Kael, movie critic for The New Yorker, said that the film came along when the right metaphor for the human condition was a loony bin. Nearly all the top U.S. film critics gave the film positive reviews, heaping particular praise on Jack Nicholson’s portrayal of McMurphy. Their reservations related to the film’s simplification of themes in Kesey’s novel. Kesey, for his part, never wanted to see the film. He was so upset by the film’s choice not to use another character, Chief Bromden, as narrator of the story that he sued the producers. Nonetheless, the film succeeded with the public at the box office: made with a budget of $3 million, Cuckoo’s Nest grossed $112 million after release. At the 1975 Academy Awards, the film won the five top honors—Best Picture, Best Director (Milos Forman), Best Actor (Jack Nicholson), Best Actress (Louise Fletcher), and Best Adapted Screenplay (Bo Goldman and Lawrence Hauben). It was the first film to sweep the top five Oscars since 1934’s It Happened One Night.

Although Louise Fletcher’s portrayal of Nurse Ratched proved Oscar-worthy, many of Hollywood’s leading actresses, including Jane Fonda, Anne Bancroft, Ellen Burstyn, Faye Dunaway, Geraldine Page, and Angela Lansbury, had turned down the role. The character of Nurse Ratched may have been unattractive because both Kesey’s novel and the Broadway play portrayed her as a castrating female determined to rob men of their masculinity—a stereotype to which the women’s liberation movement of the 1970s objected. However, when the film was being made, the screenwriters, producers, director, and actress together altered the portrayal of Nurse Ratched into a broader figure of institutional authority without such sexist overtones. When Fletcher, in her first starring role, earned an Oscar for her portrayal of Nurse Ratched, some of those who declined the role admitted they had made a career mistake. Fletcher furnished one of the award ceremony’s most memorable moments when she used sign language to thank her deaf parents. Although Milos Forman’s work is filled with people injured by society, he often relies upon humor to portray the ordinary humanity of these damaged souls.

In One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest, he presents the inmates of a mental hospital as quirky and funny in the midst of outrage. Forman’s characters are individual human beings capable of displaying great dignity. He relies upon techniques from his roots in cinéma vérité to create the look and feel of reality—an especially noteworthy approach in light of the fact that the novel is quite hallucinatory and the stage play used a surrealistic set design to underscore the madness. Forman set the story in a real mental institution in Oregon, cast the institution’s administrator as the doctor in the film, and used actual patients as extras. In the pivotal role of Chief Bromden, Forman cast a nonactor, a full-blooded member of the Creek tribe working as a park ranger near Salem. Through realism, humor and humanism, Forman transforms the story to better express the tenor of its time. Following his success with Cuckoo’s Nest, Forman directed the film version of the popular counterculture musical Hair (1979), followed by Ragtime (1981), Amadeus (1984), Valmont (1989), The People vs.

Larry Flynt (1996), and Man on the Moon (1999). Although Amadeus won eight Oscars in 1984, including Best Picture and another Best Director award for Forman, critics generally acknowledge One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest to be his foremost work. In November 1977, the American Film Institute voted it into its Top Ten of America’s Best Films, along with Casablanca, Gone With the Wind, and Citizen Kane.

Question: Who directed the 1995 film "One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest'?
Answer: Milos Forman